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Dr Jim Crowther: Looking Back
Dr Jim Crowther has been involved as a practitioner, researcher and academic in adult and community education since 1980. His PhD focussed on adult learning in and through popular protests. He is the co-ordinator of an international popular education network (PEN) for academics and researchers in higher education. His main research interest is in the contribution of adult education to furthering democracy and social justice, which he has written about extensively in reference to popular… Read More
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Raymond Williams: Adult Education and the Public Intellectual
Raymond Williams came into my life as a result of work I undertook on my thesis in 2014 on adult education. My PhD supervisor, Professor John Holford, suggested I explore Williams’s An Open Letter to W.E.A Tutors (1961) to understand some of the complexities of the historical place of adult learning and the role of the Workers’ Educational Association. What was immediately clear to me was that Williams was arguing for a form of education for the… Read More